While Freemasons come from all walks of life, the roll call of famous Masons is astounding.
Famous British Freemasons
Monarchs | Statesmen |
King George IV (1762 - 1830) King William IV (1765 - 1837) King Edward VII (1841 - 1910) King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972) King George VI (1895 - 1952 |
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) George Canning (1770 - 1827) Lord Randolph Churchill (1849 - 1895) Cecil Rhodes (1852 - 1903) Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) Leopold S. Amery (1873 - 1955) |
Religion | Scientists |
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (1887 - 1972) Sir Israel Brodie (1895 - 1979) |
Sir Joseph Banks (1744 - 1820) Dr Edward Jenner (1749 - 1823) Sir Alexander Fleming (1881 - 1955) Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877 - 1947) |
Explorers | Charity |
Sir Richard Burton (1821 - 1890) Capt Robert Falcon Scott, RN (1868 - 1912) Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922) |
Dr T. J. Barnardo (1845 - 1905) 1st Viscount Leverhulme Sir William "Billy" Butlin (1899 - 1980) |
Actors | Writers |
David Garrick (1717 - 1779) Edmund Kean (1787 - 1833) Sir Henry Irving (1838 - 1905) Sir Donald Wolfitt (1902 - 1968) Peter Sellers (1925 - 1980) |
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) Edward Gibbon (1734 - 1794) Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816) Robbie Burns (1759 - 1796) Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) Sir William S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936) |
Artists | Music |
Sir James Thornhill (1676 - 1734) William Hogarth (1697 - 1764) John Zoffany (1733 - 1810) Sir John Soane (1753 - 1837) |
Thomas Arne (1710 - 1778) (Rule Britannia) Samuel Wesley (1766 - 1837) Sir Henry Bishop (1786 - 1855) (Home sweet home) Sir Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900) |
Entertainers | Sportsmen |
Jim Davidson Cyril Fletcher Geraldo Nat Jackley Sir Harry Lauder Alfred Marks David Nixon Edmundo Ross Cyril Stapleton Tommy Trinder Jimmy Wheeler Roger de Courcey |
Harold Abrahams Jackie Milburn Sir Donald Campbell Malcolm Campbell Sir Leonard Hutton Jock Stein Sir Alec Rose Sir Clive Lloyd Jim Peters Sir Arthur Gold Trevor Simpson Len Shackleton Joe Wade Leslie Compton Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Bowes Sir Thomas Lipton William 'Jack' Dempsey Tony Allcock Peter Ebdon Mark Wildman |
Army | Navy | ||
General Sir John Moore (1761 - 1809) Field Marshal 1st Duke of Wellington (1769 - 1852) Field Marshal Earl Roberts of Kandahar (1832 - 1914) Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850 - 1916) Field Marshal Sir John French, Earl of Ypres (1852 - 1925) Field Marshal Earl Haig (1861 - 1928) General Sir Francis Wingate (1861 -1953) Field Marshal Garnett, 1st Viscount Wolseley (1883 - 1913) Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck (1884 - 1981) Field Marshal Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891 - 1969) |
Admiral Sir Sidney Smith (1764 - 1840) Admiral Lord Charles Beresford (1841 - 1919) Admiral Earl Jellicoe (1859 - 1935)
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